Return of the Lichemaster
WARHAMMER
FANTASY BATTLE
The four battles in Return of the Lichemaster can very easily
be adapted for playing on the tabletop with Citadel Miniatures
and Warhammer Fantasy Battle rules.
Forces
Forces can be taken from this adventure if you wish, or you
could select new forces from Warhammer Armies, according to
the figures you have available.
If you wish to use the forces given in this adventure, you
should be able to convert the profiles with little difficulty/The
Skeletons are standard Skeletons, the Dwarfs are standard
Dwarfs, and in most cases the villagers can be treated as levies.
Exceptional characters can be converted to WFB using the
tables at the start of the WFRP Bestiary section, but take care -
particularly in the case of experienced adventurers, WFRP
characters can have high characteristics when converted to
WFB. You may prefer to use standard hero profiles.
Several magical items are mentioned in the adventure. Most of
them have direct equivalents in the Warhammer Fantasy
Battle rules, and for the others you can either devise your own
rules or replace them with standard WFB magic items.
Terrain
Maps 3, 6, 7 and 8 can be used as the basis for setting up
terrain on the tabletop; the section on terrain in the WFB
rulebook should help you here. You may have noticed that
most of the maps are based on the card buildings from
Warhammer Townscape. These are as follows:
Gimbrin's Mine
Tool store - 37; Bridge - 5; Hall -15; Huts - 6,7,8,29.
The mule pen can be made up out of hedge or wall units, or
you can use the lengths of model ranch-style fencing which can
be found in most toy and model shops. The mine entrance can
be marked on the table in chalk, or can be represented by a
plastic tunnel-end for a small-scale model railway.
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Wernicke's Farm
The farmhouse is a combination of buildings 1, 7 and 37. The
barn and dog kennel are 20 and 14 respectively.
Frugelhofen
Bridge - 5; Villagers' houses - 6,8,11,15,19,20,27,28,29; Mill
House - 4 (omit the ramp and mount the wheel in its place);
Mill store sheds - 7, 37; Store -18; Stables & dairy - 34; Barn -
20; Cairn - this can be made by gluing together small pieces of
gravel, or you can mark it on the table in some other way.
La Maisontaal
The map of La Maisontaal is not based on Warhammer
Townscape; however, a very satisfactory tabletop layout for the
monastery can be put together as follows:
Main building - use the work shed (34) for the stem of the T ,
with the jail (32) as the crosspiece. Place the temple (31) at one
end to produce a rough facsimile of Map 4. Crypt entrance -
17; Stables & Barn - 20. The village outside the monastery can
be made up of the same buildings as used for Frugelhofen.
The Lichemaster Campaign
The four battles in this WFRP adventure can be played as a
four-part Warhammer Fantasy Battle campaign, if you wish.
This can be done simply as follows:
Gimbrin's Mine and Wernicke's Farm: forces as agreed by
both players.
Frugelhofen: Human player gains survivors from mine and
farm, undead player gains a number of normal Skeletons equal
to the Human and Dwarf casualties at the mine and farm
(hand weapon, no armour), and can re-use all Skeletons
destroyed in both battles.
La Maisontaal: Human player gains survivors from
Frugelhofen, undead player gains a number of normal
Skeletons equal to the defenders' casualties at Frugelhofen
(hand weapon, no armour), and can re-use all Skeletons
destroyed at Frugelhofen.